If you wanted to purchase these each separately, here is what you would pay (and it would not include the backpack):

12-pack Of Crayola colored pencils – $0.97

4-pack of Expo dry erase markers – $2.97

1 bottle of Purell hand sanitizer – $1.87

1-pack of Kleenex facial tissue – $0.97

3-pack of Elmer’s glue sticks – $0.97

24-pack of Crayola crayons – $0.50

1 Fiskars blunt tip scissors – $1.47

3-pack of 2 pocket folders – $0.51 ($0.17 each)

2 wide ruled notebooks – $0.34 ($0.17 each)

24-pack of #2 pencils – $2

1 pencil sharpener – $0.47

1 three-ring binder – $2.74

1 ruler – $0.97TOTAL: $16.85 – makes the backpack just a bit more than $3

This is a great way to grab many supplies to help out those kids whose parents just can not afford to get the the supplies they need (which then often falls onto the shoulders of the teacher to help them out).

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